On Tue, Aug 7, 2012 at 1:30 AM, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 <r65...@freescale.com> wrote: > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Alex Williamson [mailto:alex.william...@redhat.com] >> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2012 9:27 PM >> To: Bhushan Bharat-R65777 >> Cc: qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Avi Kivity >> Subject: Re: Running KVM guest on X86 >> >> On Mon, 2012-08-06 at 15:40 +0000, Bhushan Bharat-R65777 wrote: >> > Hi Avi/All, >> > >> > I am facing issue to boot KVM guest on x86 (I used to work on PowerPC >> > platform >> and do not have enough knowledge of x86). I am working on making VFIO >> working on >> PowerPC Booke, So I have cloned Alex Williamsons git repository, compiled >> kernel >> for x86 on fedora with virtualization configuration (selected all kernel >> config >> options for same). Run below command to boot Guest (I have not provided vfio >> device yet): >> > >> > "qemu-system-x86_64 -enable-kvm -m 1024 -nographic -kernel >> arch/x86_64/boot/bzImage -initrd /boot/initramfs-3.5.0-rc4+.img -serial >> tcp::4444,server,telnet" >> > >> > After the I can see qemu command line (able to run various commands like >> > "info >> registers" etc), while guest does not boot (not even the first print comes). >> > >> > Can anyone help in what I am missing or doing wrong? >> >> x86 doesn't use the serial port for console by default, so you're making >> things >> quite a bit more difficult that way. Typically you'll want to provide a disk >> image (the -hda option is the easiest way to do this), a display (-vga std >> -vnc >> :0 is again easiest), and probably something to install from (-cdrom >> <image.iso>). You can also add a -boot d to get it to choose the cdrom the >> first time for install. Thanks, > > Thanks Avi and Alex, I can see the KVM guest boot prints by adding -append > "console=ttyS0"
Note, once you get to user space you will need a getty specified in inittab in order to get a login on your serial port. Something like: T0:23:respawn:/sbin/getty -L ttyS0 Stuart